Let’s face it: Paul LePage is one lazy governor. Instead of finding ways to identify specific abuses he alleges happen within our state’s safety net, he follows a lazy no-effort path and proposes blaming whole classifications of people and pulling the rug out from under them. Ignoring the ineptitude and withholding reporting of computer problems […]

Lately, the demise of common sense and logic across the country and the world appears to be reaching warp speed, locally representative of Peter Sirois’ May 5 letter to the editor and globally by the recent assertion that dinosaur flatulence may have contributed to that era’s global warming. Do people really think Gov. Paul LePage’s […]

When I read in the paper about the cuts in services that the state has provided for low-income folk — MaineCare, health care coverage for more than 20,000 people, prescription drug coverage for senior citizens and funding for Head Start — I was ashamed. Ashamed that this country, with all its wealth, would be reduced […]

Today, May 19 is Armed Forces Day. I would like to remind everybody on this Armed Forces Day about how much our men and women now serving are sacrificing at home and all over the world, on our more than 800 bases, to protect our freedoms. Whether deployed in combat and non-combat situations, overseas or […]

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “The trouble isn’t so much that our scientific genius lags behind, but our moral genius lags behind.” This thought leads to my proposal that need not be enacted by any legislature. This proposal can only be passed or vetoed by each person’s own conscience. It’s common to […]